J. Matt Barber column
Matt Barber is Director of Cultural Affairs with both Liberty Counsel and Liberty Alliance Action. He also serves as Associate Dean of Liberty University School of Law and co-hosts the nationally syndicated "Liberty Live" talk radio program on AFR Talk. Send comments to Matt at jmattbarber@comcast.net. (This information is provided for identification purposes only.)
J. Matt Barber
May 3, 2012
They used to arrest middle-aged perverts who get their jollies from talking dirty to children. Today, they get a television show, a nationally syndicated column . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 10, 2012
Eric Holder is a busy man. When President Obama's chief law enforcement officer isn't tied up selling guns to Mexican drug cartels, refusing to prosecute self . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 31, 2012
Liberal theologian William Ellery Channing once observed, "The cry has been that when war is declared, all opposition should be hushed. A sentiment more . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 9, 2012
Saul Alinsky is alive and well in the political maneuverings of the secular left. The problem is; we all have the play book now.
As most know, Rush Limbaugh . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 12, 2012
Barack Obama may have just lost the election. He has foolishly gone to war in an election year with tens of millions of Catholics, Protestants and Jews — . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 27, 2012
You're being manipulated. A well respected, highly influential news source has cast aside all journalistic integrity to shill for the liberal, GOP establishment . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 25, 2012
What do establishment Republicans and liberal Democrats have in common? They've long labored under a shared misconception: conservative candidates are . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 14, 2012
I grew up in Denver and am admittedly biased. I'm a Denver Broncos fanatic. In the Mile High City, the Broncos are more than just a football team; they're an . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 4, 2012
As the political season heats up it occurs to me that, as important as elections are, unless the hearts of men are changed, the heart of a nation cannot awaken. . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 23, 2011
After the most recent GOP presidential debate, reasonable people can disagree as to who came out on top. It was abundantly clear, however, who was smothered . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 21, 2011
While necessity is the mother of invention, sloth and envy beget mediocrity and upheaval — the twin siblings of secular-socialism.
It is in this vein . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 10, 2011
Liberals are nervous. They should be. As the 2012 election grows closer a soft rumble builds throughout thousands of Evangelical Christian churches across . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 6, 2011
There has been great gnashing of teeth in "progressive" circles of late over "Christian Dominionist Theology."
MSNBC's Rachel Maddow has warned that much of . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 3, 2011
In "Batman," the Joker rhetorically asks a young Bruce Wayne: "Tell me, kid — you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?" Well, I have. Not by . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 25, 2011
To the modern Democratic National Committee, the mainstream media and other "progressive" outfits such as the American Civil Liberties Union and the Southern . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 29, 2011
Dads, when you let the National Education Association, Hollywood and the cast from Glee raise your daughters, you shouldn't be surprised if they turn out to be . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 20, 2011
Fuel prices got you down? Need a job? Well, prepare to unlearn everything you've learned about domestic energy production. Don't ever let another green "warmer" . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 19, 2011
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 9, 2011
Obamacare is like turnip greens: bitter and hard to swallow, but Mommy made you choke them down anyway. The difference is that turnip greens are constitutional . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 26, 2011
What is the Tea Party? Who is the Tea Party? Big media types and the larger left have their demagogic spin: Tea Partyers are racist, backwoods, anti-government . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 15, 2011
Proposition 8 is an amendment to California's State Constitution. It was passed by a comfortable margin via ballot initiative in 2008. Prop 8 maintained the age . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 14, 2011
In the age of gratuitous Hollywood sex and violence it's not surprising that people are starved for family-friendly entertainment. This is not just a matter of . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 25, 2011
Irony is defined as "the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning." The term doublespeak means "evasive, ambiguous language . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 23, 2011
The term "useful idiot" is believed to have been coined by Vladimir Lenin. It originally described liberal Communist sympathizers in Western nations who, as the . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 22, 2011
Guns don't kill people, metaphors do. It's true. Words have consequences. I tested it: Used a sports analogy just yesterday and a pick-up game of hoops broke . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 10, 2011
From the instant his fruitful eight-year reign ended, Republicans have pined for the next Ronald Reagan. To date, no man has succeeded in filling the . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 21, 2010
Sometimes the most effective way to deal with a bully is to simply pop him in the chops. While it may not shut him up entirely, it usually gives him pause . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 29, 2010
Prior to November's secular-socialism rollback, America's ever-shrill "progressive" machine contorted in a desperate effort to paint the Tea Party movement as a . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 4, 2010
Now that conservative candidates have mopped the floor with Democrats as expected, the Republican Party needs to have a serious "come to Jesus" meeting, and . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 30, 2010
John Adams, our second U.S. president, famously observed: "Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 29, 2010
One has to wonder if Reuters reporter Julie Steenhuysen will soon be joining the millions of other Americans relegated to Obama's swelling unemployment lines. . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 26, 2010
I'm a tremendous fan of author and Christian apologist C.S. Lewis. Rarely does one find a writer who can elucidate so profoundly, as could he, the stark . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 21, 2010
I don't see how liberal media-types can write, what with those uncalloused, milky-soft little digits all bundled in bulky kid gloves and all. Oh, when the . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 27, 2010
With a potential political bloodbath looming in November, liberals are understandably desperate. They see it all slipping away and it shows. The grassroots . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 16, 2010
[W]e will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see.
Ronald Wilson Reagan
Our nation is chosen by God and . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 6, 2010
"Progressives" are like pig farmers. In an effort to bury opposing viewpoints they sling pejorative slop, labeling as "bigot," "hater," "wingnut" or "racist" . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 25, 2010
Though always left of center, the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) once had a reputation as a fairly objective civil rights group. Founded by . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 5, 2010
The U.S. military has always discriminated. There are a host of malignant behaviors such as illicit drug use or habitual criminality that can render a person . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 11, 2010
Last weekend the San Francisco Chronicle "outed" Proposition 8 Judge Vaughn Walker as an active practitioner of the homosexual lifestyle: "The biggest open . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 31, 2010
"If you don't like it just turn off the TV!" goes the liberal mantra as all form of sexual perversion, obscenity and violence slinks unannounced into our living . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 28, 2010
The president recently told Diane Sawyer: "I'd rather be a really good one-term president than a mediocre two-term president." Excise the self-aggrandizing . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 21, 2010
So much for that whole "hopey-changey" thing; cute while it lasted, but the American people like Bernie Madoff investors now realize they've been duped. . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 18, 2010
Pop quiz:
Kyle and Christina casual acquaintances fresh out of college are interviewing for the same job. It's a position each desperately wants and . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 8, 2010
During the Roman Empire's secularist era those who acknowledged the deity of Christ were frequently fed to the lions to entertain for lack of a better word . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 22, 2009
Are you as annoyed as I am by that nauseatingly amorphous phrase "Happy Holidays?" You may be interested to know that the mindset behind the term precedes . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 3, 2009
Today's Democratic leadership is a predictable lot. They've cornered the market on mass manipulation through semantic tinkering. It's a relatively easy code to . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 13, 2009
It never ceases to amaze me the degree to which liberals the self-styled proponents of "tolerance" and "diversity"... the mind-numbingly sanctimonious . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 14, 2009
OK, this is just too easy. You have to ask: Did the Norwegian Nobel Committee devise a secret plot to completely marginalize President Obama in the . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 6, 2009
Obama's inner-circle is shaping-up like the bar scene from Star Wars. It's a swollen throng of unaccountable czars and policy advisors comprised of some of the . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 10, 2009
On Wednesday night President Obama threw a universal healthcare Hail Mary. The call? Incomplete pass.
His much anticipated address to a joint session of . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 2, 2009
Politicos, pundits and armchair campaign managers around the country are keeping a close eye on this year's gubernatorial contest in the Commonwealth of . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 20, 2009
Lincoln's Gettysburg Address comes to mind. In the art of persuasion, it's often most effective to paint in brief, colorful strokes.
A savvy reader with the . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 12, 2009
It's socialized medicine vs. the private sector. How does the former match-up to the latter? Well, by way of an ill-advised postal services analogy, our . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 5, 2009
I got a call a couple days ago from a producer with MSNBC. He wanted a hard copy of a press release I sent out entitled: "ObamaCare Likely to Mandate Free 'Sex . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 26, 2009
The president has more "czars" running around than Mother Russia. It's mondo bizarro. Kind of fitting, though; must be a communist thing.
Still, as the . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 15, 2009
The highly contentious "nature vs. nurture" debate over whether gay penguins choose the homosexual lifestyle or are hatched that way has reached a hard boil.
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J. Matt Barber
July 7, 2009
Relativism is as relativism does, and Barack Obama does it well. His less than tepid response to evidence of a rigged election in Iran a few weeks ago and the . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 29, 2009
Most are unaware that during the Revolutionary War George Washington was a staunch advocate for allowing "gays" in the military. In fact, he boldly commissioned . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 27, 2009
Author and educator Peter S. Drucker wrote, "When a subject becomes totally obsolete, we make it a required course." Congress takes the inanity a step further. . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 7, 2009
Senate sponsors and liberal activist proponents of the federal "hate crimes" bill, S. 909, have been caught in a series of bald-faced lies. So confident am I of . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 24, 2009
Warning: This article contains graphic but accurate material that may be offensive to some readers.
You may have heard. During Sunday's Miss USA pageant . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 22, 2009
Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL) have quietly re-introduced the federal thought crimes bill, H.R. 1913, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 25, 2008
How does one properly describe another who would for purely selfish political reasons and with deliberation intentionally refuse a thirsty child water or a . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 6, 2008
As one of those pop-cultural non-conformist types, please indulge me while I go ahead and toss that stifling, mind-numbing muzzle called political correctness.
. . .
J. Matt Barber
May 13, 2008
The University of Toledo (UT) has sent a message loud and clear to potential employees and students: African-American Christians need not apply.
UT . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 7, 2008
On April 25, adult homosexual activists with the Gay, Lesbian & Straight Education Network (GLSEN) held their annual "Day of Silence" (DOS) propaganda push. . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 22, 2008
Can you imagine officials at a middle school, junior high or high school setting aside a day to promote "tolerance" for heavy smoking and drinking among . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 7, 2008
There's a shakeup in the cult of neo-Darwinist pseudo-science, and that endearing, monotone high school teacher of "Ferris Bueller" fame is doing the shaking.
. . .
J. Matt Barber
March 26, 2008
Modern science sometimes serves to validate timeless Biblical truths (not that objective truth needs validating). Romans 6:23 contains two such truths. It . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 21, 2008
If conventional wisdom holds true and John McCain ends up the last man standing in this year's Republican primary, he's going to have his work cut out for him . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 13, 2008
Balance of Power
Americans who self-identify as "gay" or lesbian comprise roughly one to three percent of the population. Yet the homosexual movement led . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 24, 2008
You can't help but feel a little sorry for Amanda Beck. She's a reporter from Reuters who was among the first to cover a new study conducted by researchers at . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 18, 2008
In recent years, the U.S. Department of Justice has paid only lip service to the enforcement of federal obscenity laws. In some instances, DOJ has gone after . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 9, 2008
It's not Osama Bin Laden, Saddam Hussein or Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. It's not even Joseph Stalin, Pol Pot or Adolph Hitler. No, according to Keith Olbermann . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 21, 2007
Talk radio host Michael Savage doesn't mince words. He often says that "liberalism is a mental disorder." He's right. Liberal ideology and political . . .
J. Matt Barber
December 17, 2007
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the term "September 11th" almost instantly became a household phrase. It represents a day of great tragedy and outrage . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 15, 2007
With its fantasy world backdrop, sympathetic talking animals and extravagant battle scenes, the new movie, The Golden Compass, may resemble C.S. Lewis' The . . .
J. Matt Barber
November 2, 2007
My 19 year-old brother, Jared, recently shared his thoughts in a brief essay on today's politically correct, post-modern concept of "tolerance." I'm admittedly . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 22, 2007
Bella, an independent film staring Mexican superstar Eduardo Verαstegui, is scheduled for limited release in theatres on October 26. The movie, an . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 20, 2007
Ask any one of the untold thousands of men and women who have left the homosexual lifestyle, and they'll say, "Tell us something we didn't already know." . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 19, 2007
"They feel kind for a season, but remain blind to all reason." Matt Barber, just now
Such is the nature of political correctness. And in that spirit, . . .
J. Matt Barber
September 10, 2007
Heard the one about the U.S. Senator who walked into the toilet with an undercover cop on perversion patrol?
Of course you have. Everyone's heard it, but . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 28, 2007
Illinois School District 126, covering Alsip, Hazelgreen and Oak Lawn, has defended its choice to assign summer reading to 12- and 13-year-olds that is replete . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 10, 2007
Thursday night, MTV's homosexual cable network, LOGO, and the homosexual "Human Rights Campaign" (HRC) hosted the first-ever presidential debate solely intended . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 3, 2007
Jesus said, "But from the beginning of the creation, God 'made them male and female. For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 28, 2007
What they lack in originality they make up for in audacity. Once again, obstructionism is the name of the game as Senate liberals use the same tired playbook . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 18, 2007
In July, The U.S. Senate held hearings on Dr. James Holsinger, President Bush's Surgeon General nominee. Holsinger has been unfairly and viciously attacked by . . .
J. Matt Barber
July 6, 2007
The homosexual lobby has fine-tuned its rhetoric in recent years. Through the hyperbolic and repetitive use of such concocted expressions as "marriage equality . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 22, 2007
With its 2003 Goodridge v. Dept. of Public Health decision, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court circumvented the constitutional process and arbitrarily . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 7, 2007
The Human Rights Campaign, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and a host of other radical homosexual activist and leftist organizations are decrying . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 6, 2007
Luigi is living the American dream. He's finally saved up enough money to come to America the land of freedom and opportunity to pursue his lifelong goal . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 26, 2007
Mary Cheney, unwed lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney, has given birth to a son, Samuel David Cheney. This beautiful child of God is undoubtedly a . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 23, 2007
The recent media tempest surrounding the passing of Reverend Jerry Falwell has blown away the mask of sublime compassion and tolerance worn by members of the . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 21, 2007
Java giant Starbucks finds itself entangled in yet another brewing controversy over its "The Way I See It" campaign. Starbucks has a history of placing liberal . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 10, 2007
Liberals in the House of Representatives have passed the "hate crimes" bill, H.R. 1592, the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes Prevention Act, by a margin of 237 . . .
J. Matt Barber
May 2, 2007
The Associated Press is reporting the latest in a string of fraudulent high profile "hate crime" reports by homosexual activists who are evidently having . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 27, 2007
Our nation was shocked and grief stricken early last week by the horrific and evil actions of a madman in Virginia whose callous disregard and utter disdain for . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 23, 2007
Don Imus, recently unemployed pioneer of the high-dollar "shock-jock" industry, is a truly gifted man. He has the rare but unenviable ability to really tick . . .
J. Matt Barber
April 16, 2007
The pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign (HRC) has asked Concerned Women for America (CWA) to the political Jitterbug dance; and though CWA don't swing that way . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 27, 2007
Marine General Peter Pace decorated war hero and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff continues to find himself fending off a vicious and unfamiliar rapid . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 7, 2007
Lefty word-watchdogs and their allies in the mainstream media have hurt feelings ... again. As per usual, liberals are frothing at the mouth in a fit of very . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 24, 2007
They say that the pen is mightier than the sword, and for that reason they also say to tread lightly while criticizing anyone with both a warehouse full of ink . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 17, 2007
Media outlets have given the story fairly wide coverage. Presidential candidate and former Senator John Edwards (D- North Carolina) recently named two leftist, . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 4, 2007
Wearing his 2008 presidential aspirations on his sleeve and appearing the ever humble, yet iron-jawed and selflessly devoted, champion of the GOP's must-have . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 31, 2007
In his State of the Union address last Tuesday, President Bush briefly touched on the horrors of the HIV/AIDS pandemic currently plaguing Africa. Most everyone . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 12, 2007
Liberals in Washington are very vocal in opposition to the president's planned deployment of additional troops to the Iraqi theatre, but in the culture war on . . .
J. Matt Barber
October 28, 2006
You can put a pig in a mini-skirt, high heals and lipstick and call him Angelina Jolie, but he's still a pig just the same. That's just what pro-homosexual . . .
J. Matt Barber
August 30, 2006
If you're a Christian working for the City of Minneapolis, watch your step your job may already be in jeopardy. In what may be one of the most blatant acts . . .
J. Matt Barber
June 20, 2006
Whether you like him or not Bayou Brat James Carville, notable Democratic Party strategist and Bill Clinton advisor, was appropriately credited for his . . .
J. Matt Barber
March 17, 2006
The Republican gubernatorial primary in Illinois has reached the boiling point, and the purported front runner, liberal Judy Baar Topinka, is apparently quite . . .
J. Matt Barber
February 27, 2006
The Republican Party has become deeply divided. In recent years, the conservative pro-life/pro-family base of the GOP has not only had to stand its ground . . .
J. Matt Barber
January 9, 2006
We're all familiar with the classical Biblical account of how Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt to wander in the wilderness for forty years on a very . . .